5Connect to and Consume Azure and Third-Party Services

• 5.1Exposing APIs with API Management

  Understand exposing backend APIs with Azure API Management (APIM): authentication, throttling, policies (transform/cache), and products/subscriptions. The starting point for "Connect to and consume services" in AZ-204.

• 5.2Messaging and Events

  Understand choosing among Service Bus (enterprise messaging), Storage Queue (simple queue), Event Grid (reactive event delivery), and Event Hubs (high-volume streaming).